- Songwriter ("Flamingo"), composer and author, educated at the Conservatory of Bucharest, Sorbonne, and the Ecole Normale de Musique, and a student of Alfred Corot, Dandelot, and Nadia Boulanger. He taught piano studies at the Bucharest Conservatory, and was a member of a public relations firm. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his chief musical collaborators included Jimmy Dorsey, Edmund Anderson, Jimmy Eaton, Louis Forbes, Kermit Goell, Edward Heyman, and Frank Loesser. His other popular-song compositions include "I Heard You Cried Last Night", "I'm Misunderstood", "Since You Went Away", "Fascination", "In My Arms", "Two Again", "I Hear It From Everyone But You", and "When Am I Gonna Kiss You Good Morning?".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- A child prodigy, Grouya received a royal citation for a song he wrote for Queen Marie of Romania.
- Most famous for "Flamingo", a standard he wrote with Edmund Anderson.
- Was Head of Music for MGM in Europe.
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